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I'm currently looking at upgrading my interconnect cables from the ones supplied with my separates.  Like anyone, I want good quality cables but I don't want to pay an excessive amount for them.  Is there anywhere online that has good deals on cables?  Or maybe some that haven't had the price pumped up by having an expensive brand name printed on them! 

[quote user="cgrpr"]some that haven't had the price pumped up by having an expensive brand name printed on them! [/quote] 

Why not just paint your existing ones a pretty colour? It'll work just as well.

"All well designed interconnects will sound the same.  This is a contentious claim, but is regrettably true - regrettable for those who have paid vast sums of money for theirs, at least.

http://sound.westhost.com/cables-p3.htm

Thank you for your sarcastic comment about painting my current cables, it was most helpful!  I will just point you to the last section of your post "Bottom line on interconnects".  It says use home made cables, or buy ones that are well made and reasonably priced.  Now, I wouldn't mind making some myself, but I wouldn't know where to buy the cable or the connectors, so this leaves me with the second option, which I believe is what my original post was about.  I just want some well made good quality cables for a reasonable price, because although the OE cables were free (which is as reasonable as a price can get) I'm fairly certain that they're not very well made.  So, if anyone can help me, please reply, if you just want a debate about whether or not interconnects are worth it, I'm not interested.  Thanks.

[quote user="cgrpr"]if you just want a debate about whether or not interconnects are worth it, I'm not interested.[/quote] 

OK sorry. These look well made and pretty.

[quote user="Will Harris"]Why don't you start telling people useful things that will help them?[/quote] 

If there is no problem with the sound, no intermittency, hum or interference there is simply no point in replacing them. 

That's the point. 

Maybe you could make a good deal on ebay....

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/__Cables-Connectors_interconnect_W0QQ_nkwZinterconnectQQ_fxdZ1QQ_ptasZ8Q2cUKQ5fAudioTVElectronicsQ5fHomeAudioHiFiQ5fAmplifiersQ5e3Q2cUKQ5fAudioVisualElectronicsQ5fHomeAudioHiFiQ5fHeadphonesQ5e3Q2cUKQ5fCEQ5fMP3AccessQ5fRLQ5e1

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Maybe you could make a good deal on ebay....

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/__Cables-Connectors_interconnect_W0QQ_nkwZinterconnectQQ_fxdZ1QQ_ptasZ8Q2cUKQ5fAudioTVElectronicsQ5fHomeAudioHiFiQ5fAmplifiersQ5e3Q2cUKQ5fAudioVisualElectronicsQ5fHomeAudioHiFiQ5fHeadphonesQ5e3Q2cUKQ5fCEQ5fMP3AccessQ5fRLQ5e1

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Some nice looking Linn ones on there cheap. 

How about these? They come complete with snakeoil. Not that expensive either.

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=oil+injected

 Yeah thanks Will.  I had a look at his website, I guess it's the Canare LV61S cables that I'd want.  They're still £24 a shot though which I know is at the budget end of cables but I've found QED Qunex's for £15 online and the mags rave about them, and those Cambridge Audio Atlantics are £10, which is much more appealing to me if they're going to work just as well.

[quote user="Will Harris"]I would repeat that you should look at Mark Grant's offerings. Oldphrt please be a bit more positive.[/quote] 

Recommending one overpriced interconnect over another is an ultimately pointless exercise when there is nothing to choose between any of them. What is there to be positive about when the rip off charlatans have won the minds of so many people?

Perhaps I should market my own cables. How does PHRT moonshine reference edition sound?

Recommending one overpriced interconnect over another is an ultimately pointless exercise when there is nothing to choose between any of them.

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Listen up oldphrt, I've already told you I'm not interested in a debate about the worthiness of interconnect cables in terms of sound quality etc, I'm interested in build quality and also I'd like them to look good too.  I know that all the interconnects do is take the signal from the source to the amp and as such all they can do is degrade the signal rather than improve it, especially at the connection points I would think.  With this in mind, I'm sure some well made cables with gold coating on the plugs would degrade the signal less than my current cables which have a coating of corrosion on the plugs, I'm sure that improves the connection!

I had a interesting day with many cables and CD players abx tests....great fun and manage to save an old friend some cash with his cables upgrade (or down grade...depending on who is reading this test).   Oh to answer your original question try type in Gotham in serch engine and spend a tenner on them, I known many people who prefer them than VDH 102 mk3!!!